Phillips High School

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on 7th Avenue North west of 24th Street North, on the right when traveling west.)

(Now Phillips Academy). Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail.

Alabama is home to the largest cast iron statue in the world. The Vulcan statue, located in Birmingham, stands 56 feet tall and weighs over 100,000 pounds. It was built in 1904 for the St. Louis World's Fair and was later brought to Birmingham as a symbol of the city's industrial might.